Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen trooped into Ed Stettinius' office to test the new businesslike effectiveness. Stettinius was cordial, as always. He was also mum as a clam. The correspondents probed and pounced, trying one approach after another, but to no avail. The New Dealing New York Post's William O. Player asked: "Does the U.S. attitude depend on Churchill?" Replied Ed Stettinius: "No comment." To all questions, he returned the same answer. Finally, the Chicago Sun's exasperated Tom Reynolds remarked tartly: "It seems to be possible to be more frank in London." Once again, Stettinius purred an amiable...
...months ago she fell in love with a young and darkly handsome Continental with an adventurous past. Harald Ramond had fought the Nazis in Vienna and Prague, was captured and escaped from Dachau, fought the Nazis again in France, then came to Hollywood as a bit player. Soon thereafter, Lupe became pregnant. And although her make-believe world had a solution even for this age-old dilemma, Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos could not bring herself to accept...
...most remarkable feature of the manual is its method of teaching soldiers to read music as well as to sing. The method uses a simplified system of notation in which the notes look like the holes and slits in an old-fashioned player-piano roll (see cut). By watching them carefully, even the untutored amateur can gauge his rhythm, making the long notes properly long and the short ones correctly short. Added helps are provided by cartoons (by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Addams, now with the armed forces) which tellingly illustrate the significance of scale steps, sharps and flats...
Officially, not much happened at last week's major league baseball meeting in Manhattan. The manpower squeeze, tightened further by new selective service needs in the 26-37 year-old group, precluded any important player deals. On the one big issue, appointment of a successor to the late High Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the club owners did nothing more alarming than to name a ways & means committee...
Since 1931, when 33 deaths were caused by football, there has not been a single death until this fall, when a Wisconsin player was killed...